William Simons, History, provided a presentation for an eighth-grade Social Studies class at Norwich Middle School in Norwich, New York, on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Dr. Simons and the class discussed ³An American Journey: Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball.² The program was organized and introduced by Norwich Middle School teacher Matthew Maholchic. Mr. [...]

Cynthia Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Program, served as a faculty commenter at the 11th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. The symposium, entitled “Embodied Objects: Material Culture in Three Dimensions,” took place April 19 and 20 and featured eleven graduate student papers and four presentations by faculty.

Dr. Tracy Betsinger, Anthropology, presented four posters at the joint conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists/Paleopathology Association held April 8 – April 13. The poster, “Caries prevalence and the late prehistoric Dallas phase: a regional cultural pattern of female maize consumption in East Tennessee” was part of a symposium co-organized by Dr. Betsinger. [...]